When I was at the Lily Show on the weekend, I looked at all the hybrids that have been introduced in the last 40 years and declared that we have been in the Golden Age of plant hybridization.
The idea of a "golden age" comes from the Greeks. They defined it as time of prosperity, peace, cultural production, achievement and political stability of a society. I just meant the time period when the greatest achievements were ade. That's the definition during our lifetime. Not just plant hybridization, but a lot of "Golden Ages" have occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Golden Era of music has been voted on in the U.S. They decided that the 1970s and 1980s were the best decades for music.
The Golden Age of American movies is considered to be from 1913 to 1962. For television, the first Golden Age is considered to be the 1950s. And the second Golden Age is considered the 1980s to the late 1990s.
The Golden Age of aviation/air travel was considered to be the 1950s and 1960s. And the Golden Age of American Automobiles was considered to be the 1950s and beyond. I would guess it ended by the early 1970s.
The Golden Age of Space Exploration? There's a view that considered it to be the 1950s and 1960s when it began and another that considers it to be now. There are articles that say we are entering the "Spatial Age" where spatial technology and AI will drive the future of space exploration.
The Golden Age of medicine is considered to be the first half of the 20th century and the zenith the 1955 polio vaccine. It was a time of advances in surgical techniques, immunization, drug discovery and infectious disease control.
It might be that when you are in a Golden Age, you don't describe it as such. That's because I went looking for the golden age of computing and got the Information Age. It is described as having 3 phases; the 1st Phase, characterized by newspapers, radio and television. The 2nd Phase developed by internet, satellite, computers and mobile phones. And the 3rd Phase saw the emergence of social and digital/new media. Now that's completed, there's discussion of what to call the next "era". Is there a "Golden Age" component within this time frame? I guess we'll wait to decide.
The Bonsai Society had their work on display at the Pumphouse on Ricardo Street during the Niagara-on-the-Lake garden tour on the weekend. One of the bonsai society members put a white board behind the trees so I could photograph them. That lets me add whatever background I want, so it is a cloudy sky for this pine tree. There's nothing like a beautiful bonsai tree.
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